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If I can listen to Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," I can listen to this.

 


ETA: 3 and a half minutes into it and I'm liking it quite a bit.

Advice puppy, what should I ask you next?

Advice puppy, how mad am I allowed to get that Lizzie took my favorite advice thread gimmick?

(Kidding, of course. I know exactly how mad to get.)

And cheers, Cainad-- and, pray tell: what, if any, is your relationship to Cain? It's a question I've been pondering on. 

We commented on each other's blogs a few times, back when I actually posted on mine. Then I realized he posted on both POEE and here, and I had already been using my internet name, so I joined up, got some chuckles out of the confusion, and then I never went away.

You've been pegged in the category of "Needs learning but not irrevocably retarded"

Joy. So that would put me about on a level with the rest of you guys?

This exchange alone makes me like Cal.

Welcome, and stuff. 

2nd'ed

Wait, why didn't I say that earlier in the thread?

Anyway, hi Cal.

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR USERNAME?

Also, yuo broke teh link.

You've been pegged in the category of "Needs learning but not irrevocably retarded"

The suggestion that she needs to be 'educated' could very easily be interpreted as a rather elitist sentiment. This does not, however, make it wrong.

Keep trying, Calendula!   Eventually you'll be allowed into the Inner Sanctum.

The ipod breaking isn't random, it's because Apple makes pieces of shit so you will have to buy a new one every six months.

My previous one lasted almost 5 years.

[plusplusplus, I will provide "Tripzip's Pineal Time", which will be something like 30-45 minutes of crazy wacked out hilariously insane happy electronic tunes with authentic dutch-accented DJ stupidity.]

okay so the website is the current barrier? i'll get on it! i have the basics/infrastructure done already, really all that is left is some cool graphics design.

so if anyone's got some inspiration for a nice logo, i'll work it into it, otherwise i'll get GIMPing tonight.

plusplusplus, I will provide "Tripzip's Pineal Time", which will be something like 30-45 minutes of crazy wacked out hilariously insane happy electronic tunes with authentic dutch-accented DJ stupidity.

and, i dunno but, I'm going to pre-record most of that, so it can be played multiple times, because i don't really feel like investing all that effort into something that will be listened just once by 3-5 listeners. MS are you planning on saving some archives and best-off stuff to provide re-runs for when there is no live-DJ doing their thing?

Your mission: Become even better than De Mosselman

  Dammit. This is going to get worse before it gets better, isn't it?

Ah. Well, McCain is, technically, another white man in a long succession of white men to be a candidate for president, but I see what you mean.

I thought that was the point.

So did I.

Anyway, I like it.

What the fuck kind of metaphor is "parapet of change"?

With my infinite powers of seeing the best in people, I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that K-Scar meant "precipice," not "parapet."

Once more, we find ourselves on the parapet of change. No more then a few short months, Americans will be voting for the chance to elect either an African American that actually seems to be spouting sound ideas, or yet another white man that see Bush's current approval rating as a good enough excuse to continue the crap. As an American, all I can say is...whatever.

Um.

What does skin color have to do with it?

One of the candidates is black, the other is white. Am I missing something?

And before some smartypance strokes their e-penis by posting a in response to my previous post: I will get your damned citation when my books come in. Freaking shipping taking a million years...

No arguments just yet, only questions.


So, US is last among 1st world countries.

How do we rank against developing counrtries, and against the US 50 years ago?

How does the US compare with 1st world countries 50 years ago, while we're at it?

I don't know about 50 years ago, but currently we're at #28 globally. The US has been dead last among first world countries, and we had a very dramatic increase in infant and maternal mortality, at the time when most states passed laws against midwifery in order to foster the newly-developed medical branch called "obstetrics".

I believe there is a long and cherished tradition of discrediting midwives in favor of medical practitioners who are not necessarily any better at the job.